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The origin of species, revisited : a Victorian who anticipated modern developments in Darwin's theory
- Title
- The origin of species, revisited : a Victorian who anticipated modern developments in Darwin's theory / Donald R. Forsdyke.
- Author
- Forsdyke, Donald R.
- Publication
- Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
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- Description
- x, 275 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Search for a Victorian. 1. Evolution of Languages and Species. 2. Variation, Heredity, Phenotypic and Reproductive Selection. 3. Darwin's Difficulties. 4. Hybrid Sterility. 5. Physiological Selection. 6. Failure of Meiotic Pairing. 7. Conjugation of the Chromosomes. 8. Why Sex? -- Pt. 2. The Species-Dependent Component of Base Composition. 9. Molecular Biology. 10. Primary and Secondary Levels of Information. 11. The Dominance of the Genome Phenotype. 12. Initiation of Speciation. 13. Relationship to Physiological Selection -- Pt. 3. The Divergence and Convergence of Species. 14. Selfish Genes and Selfish Groups. 15. Slow Fine-Tuning of Sequences. 16. Fine-Tuning of RNAs. 17. RNAs Driving on the Wrong Side. 18. Protein Concentration and Genetic Dominance. 19. Sex Chromosomes -- Pt. 4. The Darwinian Struggle for Truth. 20. The Philosopher. 21. Huxley and the Philosopher's Wife. 22. "We Commend This State of Mind"
- ISBN
- 077352259X (bound) :
- OCLC
- ocm46629387
- SCSB-4218224
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries